Acclaimed chef Nat Thaipun has announced a new menu for Pullman Hotels, set to launch throughout the portfolio in mid-March.
Pullman Hotels has turned up the heat on hotel bar dining, introducing a new menu takeover by celebrated chef, best-selling author and MasterChef winner Nat Thaipun. Launching from mid-March, the menu will be available until October at Pullman Auckland Hotel & Apartments and Pullman Rotorua alongside participating Pullman Hotels in Australia and Asia.
Designed as a bold menu of snacks, small plates and bites, Thaipun brings her playful, produce-led Thai cooking into Pullman bars across the region, with a focus on vibrant flavours, thoughtful technique and dishes made to be eaten between drinks. Expect punchy, aromatic plates built for sharing, from raw, chilled seafood and fragrant curries to nostalgic Thai desserts reimagined with an Australasian lens.
Thaipun’s approach to the menu is shaped by her belief in food as a cultural connector. An Australian-born Thai woman who grew up on the outskirts of Melbourne, she draws inspiration from the street food of Thailand, the home cooking of her mother and late grandmother, and a lifelong curiosity about how food carries identity, memory and place. Her cooking blends Thai flavour foundations with contemporary technique, always with an emphasis on generosity and accessibility.
The menu is a bold snapshot of Thaipun’s flavour world: silky crab and egg custard finished with roasted chilli oil, raw fish with bright green chilli and coconut dressing, slow-cooked lamb ribs glazed in fragrant Panang curry, northern Thai sausage with roasted green chilli relish, cold scallop sashimi with ginger and citrus, freshly shucked oysters with coconut and native aromatics, and playful desserts including mango sticky rice with coconut sorbet and a deconstructed Thai-Australian lamington.
The exclusive menu is extending to participating Pullman hotels around Australia and Asia, with dishes adapted to suit each venue and its local produce.
“For me, this menu is about sharing stories as much as sharing food,” said Nat Thaipun.
“Hotel bars are social spaces, and I wanted the dishes to reflect that, food that’s rooted in my Thai heritage but feels relaxed, generous and easy to enjoy in the moment.”
The takeover builds on Thaipun’s role as Pullman’s Food & Beverage Ambassador for Australia, New Zealand and Asia, reinforcing the brand’s commitment to transforming hotel bars into cultural accelerators, places where locals and travellers meet, exchange ideas, and gather over food, drink and atmosphere.
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